Recovery Sports Grill opening soon in Troy

The area’s second Recovery Sports Grill will open later this month, perhaps as early as Monday, Aug. 24, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 235 Hoosick St., Troy. The hotel opens Wednesday (8/19). It is a sibling restaurant to, and will have a similar menu as, the Recovery Room Sports Grill on New Scotland Avenue in Albany, opposite Albany Medical Center and also associated with a Hilton Garden Inn.

There are additional Recovery Sports Grills in Verona, west of Rome; Norfolk, Va.; and, coming this fall, Amsterdam. The owner of all is the local construction/real estate/development conglomerate BBL.

The restaurant’s sign, which went up Thursday, displays the name “Penalty Box” in addition to “Recovery Sports Grill.” Restaurant general manager Lynn Relyea tells me all of the restaurants’ formal names are the same: Recovery Sports Grill. To tie into its specific location, each is also given a nickname. Thus the Recovery Room in Albany because of the proximity of the hospital; the Norfolk location is called The Monarch, reflecting the mascot of nearby Old Dominion University; and Penalty Box in Troy, a nod to hockey, the most prominent sport at RPI.

Once open, Recovery Sports Grill/Penalty Box at the Troy Hilton Garden Inn will serve lunch and dinner and dinner daily.

My understanding is that there will be a restaurant that serves breakfast, room service and for guest events, as well as additional banquet facilities, but the sports bar will be the main restaurant for the hotel.

Really minor point here – because I cannot wait for this place to open so that we finally have a proper sports bar here in Troy – but if they’re going to go to the trouble of giving each location it’s own nickname, maybe they should have taken that into consideration when developing their signage. In the first place, it’s currently quite cluttered – “The Penalty Box Recovery Sports Grill, etc” is a mouthful, especially on a relatively small sign – and on a first, quick glance (like when driving) it’s confusing to sort out. But the sign sits on a support that’s in the shape of a football goal post. What’s the point in giving the place a nickname to play off of RPI’s hockey history if you’re going to then display it using football imagery? Drove by there last night and couldn’t quite figure out what was going on with that, so thanks, Steve, for clearing it up.

The irony is that until those yellow goal posts went up, I thought they had done a reasonably good job in producing a tasetful building. I don’t suppose there is any way those eyesores could be done away with.

Went there last night. Nice bar, lots of TV’s and a friendly staff.However, the place is PACKED with meatheads anytime after 9pm. There was a fight and some drunk passed out at the bar. I think this might be a great place to do happy hour, but I am not so sure about the evening crowd.

I am going to open a bar. 35 and up. If you have hair gel, chains, sunglasses or your collar is popped, you dont get it. If I see and fist bumps or the frat boy chest bump, out you go. If I hear “Bro”, “Brah”, or “dude” or any variations of that, out you go!

buddy people probably said the same stuff about youre generation when you dinosaurs started going to bars. im not a big fan of all those stereotypes either but business is business. if you want an old mans sports bar then by all means open one otherwise enjoy the game from your rocking chair.

rainin…. Trust me, anyone with a SHRED of a brain stem would rather hang out with “dinosaurs” if its a “sports bar”. Not supposed to be a “meat market” or a meathead palace. There are plenty of other bars in the area if you want that.

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